CfA: 2nd Winter School: Bayesian Methods for Empirical Macroeconomics

2nd Winter School: Bayesian Methods for Empirical Macroeconomics by
Prof. Gary Koop
Queen Mary, University of London, 14-16 December 2011

A hands-on course on BVARs and models which can be put in state space form: DSGE models, multivariate stochastic volatility and TVP-VARs. Morning lectures will be followed by hands-on computer sessions in the afternoon. This course was previously run at QMUL, central banks
including the Bank of England, the Bundesbank and the Czech National Bank, and the Polish Ministry of Finance.

http://hosted.busman.qmul.ac.uk/cgr/Summer%20Schools/44157.html

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CfA: 2012 Winter School on Fundamentals of Impact Evaluation of Public Policies

The Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (IRVAPP)
the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (IVSLA)
the Trentino School of Management (TSM)
with the patronage of the Centro Interuniversitario di Econometria
(CIdE) & the Italian Econometric Association (SIdE)
present the Winter School on

“Fundamentals and Methods for Impact Evaluation of Public Policies”

INSTRUCTORS

Joshua Angrist, MIT Department of Economics
Erich Battistin, IRVAPP & Università degli Studi di Padova
Enrico Rettore, IRVAPP & Università degli Studi di Padova
Antonio Schizzerotto, IRVAPP & Università degli Studi di Trento
Ugo Trivellato, IRVAPP, IVSLA & Università degli Studi di Padova

http://irvapp.fbk.eu/it/winterschool
http://irvapp.fbk.eu/en/winterschool2012
Contact: info@irvapp.it



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CfA: Winter school 2011 "Textul practices beyond Europe 1500-1900",

Call for Applications:
INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL
FOR DOCTORAL AND POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Cairo, December 5-16, 2010
'Zukunftsphilologie : Revisiting the Canons of TextualScholarship'

Within the framework of the Project 'Zukunftsphilologie : Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship' and in cooperation with the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo, the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien and the American University in Cairo invite applications for an international Winter School on the theme:

TEXTUAL PRACTICES BEYOND EUROPE 1500-1900

The Winter School is scheduled for December 5-16, 2010at the downtown-campus of the American University in Cairo (AUC). Twenty-four scholars will be given the opportunity to present and discuss their current research on the function, development, meaning, and practice of philology across varied communities and geographies. The Winter School will be chaired by a group of scholars including Manan Ahmed (Institut fuer Islamwissenschaft, Freie Universitaet Berlin), Muzaffar Alam (Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago), Islam Dayeh (Freie Universitaet Berlin), Nelly Hanna (Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations, AUC), Martin Mulsow (Universitaet Erfurt), and Angelika Neuwirth (Institut fuer Arabistik und Semitistik, Freie Universitaet Berlin).

The project Zukunftsphilologie endeavours to promote and emphasize primary textual scholarship beyond the classical humanistic canon. In an age of advanced communication, intellectual specialization, and unprecedented migration of knowledge and people, the discipline of philology assumes new relevance. Zukunfts-philologie aspires to support research in marginalized, undocumented and displaced varieties of philology by revisiting pre-colonial texts and scholarly traditions in Asia, Africa, the Middle East as well as in Europe.

In order to promote historically- conscious philology, the project will foster research in the following areas: the genealogy and transformations of philological practice, philology’s place in the system of knowledge (e.g. its relation to science,
theology, and jurisprudence) , philology and the university, and the relation of philology to nation and empire. Zukunftsphilologie aims to examine the role mobility,
networks of scholars, calamities, and expulsions play in the dissemination and globalization of knowledge. What is the impact of migration, expulsions and calamities (such as the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Al-Andalus, the plague, or the displacements and movements accompanied by the expansion of the Ottoman, Mongol or British Empires) on textual practice? How does the mobility of scholars, books, and manuscripts bring about scientific innovation (e.g. in tenth-century Baghdad, during the European Renaissance, during the Ming dynasty or during the 18th and 19th century)? How can the world of readers and carriers which surrounded a text since its inception be imagined? How can the literary imagination within texts, their transformative powers, and social function be investigated historically, historiographically , and now, in our own present time? How did texts have different
meanings for different readers, or different layers of meanings, which could
be utilized by readers or users? How have sacred texts been used in different societies to guide their readers or to control them? How were texts used as a source of power? How did certain groups gain or consolidate their power through texts? To situate a text philologically, historically, culturally is to trace also the networks of readers, and to delineate its movements across linguistic, geographical and temporal borderlines.

A text emerges from a particular context; it also emerges among a context of readers; how can one trace the way that readers absorb or alter it, or appropriate it in different geographical, linguistic and temporal contexts? What types of knowledge systems do processes of canonization and reorganization displace? What kinds of transformations, translations and re-translations (e.g. from Sanskrit to Persian, from Greek to Arabic, from Chinese to English or from ancient or medieval to modern) accompany such mobilizations across regions? How did translations and translations of
translations change meanings as they were appropriated by different cultures?

With these questions in mind, the Zukunftsphilologie Winter School aims to support critical reviews of historical and philological practice beyond and within Europe. "Textual practices" refers to the wide range of production and engagement with texts,
regardless of content (be it historiographical, legal, literary, religious, scientific, etc.). The Winter School will consider issues such as notions of
authorship, genre, periodization, readership, interpretative methods, textual transmission, translation, textual integrity, the archive, editorial choices and policies, the philological curriculum, as well as important philological encounters and debates. By concentrating on textual practices beyond Europe in the period between the 16th and 19th century, the aim is also to contribute to the historicization and pluralization of philology and to reflect on the wider cultural and political context in which texts and the art of reading emerged and how this has shaped our knowledge.

CONDITIONS OF APPLICATION AND PROCEDURE

Participants receive a stipend covering travel and accommodation. The program targets doctoral and post- doctoral researchers of Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Persian,Sanskrit, Syriac, Turkish, and other linguistic and philological traditions from Africa, Asia and Europe, as well as scholars of intellectual and literary history, of comparative linguistics, philology, religion and the history of science, who wish to present their ongoing projects in a comparative perspective in relation to the questions raised above.

The researchers' work should be clearly relevant to the themes of the Winter Academy. The working language is English. The application should likewise be in English and consist of

- a curriculum vitae
- a three- to five-page outline of the project the applicant is currently working on, with a brief summary thereof,
- the names of two university faculty members who can serve as referees (no letters of recommendation required)

SENT BY EMAIL as ONE PDF FILE or in ONE WORD DOCUMENT. The application should be submitted in English and should be received by 5 September 2010, addressed to:

office@trafo- berlin.de

Forum Transregionale Studien
c/o Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Attn: Georges Khalil
Wallotstrasse 19, D-14193 Berlin

Zukunftsphilologie is an initiative of the Seminar for Semitistik and Arabistik at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. The project is coordinated by Angelika Neuwirth and Islam Dayeh (both Freie Universitaet Berlin), hosted and supported by the Forum Transregionale Studien.

The Forum Transregionale Studien is a new research platform of the Land of Berlin designed to promote research that connects systematic and region-specific questions in a perspective that addresses entanglements and interactions beyond national, cultural or regional frames. The Forum works in tandem with already existing institutions and networks engaged in transregional studies and is supported by an association of directors of research institutes and networks mainly based in Berlin. It started its activities in 2010 by supporting three research projects in the fields of Law, Philology, and Urban Sociology. The Forum Trans-regionale Studien is funded by the Senate of Berlin.

For more information please see
www.forum-transregionale-studien.de


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CfA: Technical Course on Federation of Learning Repositories for Agriculture, Food and Environment

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FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
TECHNICAL COURSE ON FEDERATION OF LEARNING REPOSITORIES
FOR AGRICULTURE, FOOD & ENVIRONMENT (AgLRs)
Budapest, Hungary, November 2-5, 2009
http://aglr.aua.gr/node/4
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***APPLICATIONS' DEADLINE EXTENDED (20/10/2009) ***
***SELECTED NUMBER OF APPLICANTS TO BE OFFERED TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION GRANTS***

ORGANISED BY
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Organic.Edunet Targeted Project, eContentplus Programme ASPECT Best Practice Network, eContentplus Programme

SUPPORTED BY
ARIADNE Foundation
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
European Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA)
iQTool Project, Lifelong Learning Programme
Organic.Mednet, Lifelong Learning Programme
Rural Inclusion Project, CIP PSP Programme
United Nations University (UNU)

DATES
Applications: ***EXTENDED TO Thursday, 15 October, 2009***
Notification: ***EXTENDED TO Tuesday, 20 October, 2009***
Technical Course: Monday, 2 November – Thursday, 5 November 2009

VENUE
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)
Budapest, Hungary

OBJECTIVES
The goal of the 4-day Technical Course is to provide developers of learning content, tools and repositories with technical expertise necessary to connect to federations of learning object repositories such as Organic.Edunet, the Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) or Ariadne, using best practice and state-of-the- art standards as
recommended in Best Practice Networks such as the ASPECT project. Focus will be given to owners of existing content collections, content development and organization tools/processes, and repositories of agricultural and rural interest. To this end, the case studies to be presented will particularly focus on examples from the agricultural sector.

PROGRAMME TOPICS
* Learning resource discovery and exchange
* Reusable learning content: An overview
* Major federations of learning resource repositories: An overview
* Describing learning resources: Metadata standards
* Metadata Application Profiles
* Metadata bindings and validation
* Open Archive Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
* Implementing, describing, and harvesting an OAI-PMH target
* Structure of a query service
* The Simple Query Interface (SQI)
* Describing an SQI target
* Query languages and result formats (PLQL, LRE Context Set, IMS LOM Context Set)
* The IMS LODE Registry data model
* Describing learning resource collections
* Building a registry-driven federation
* Agricultural project case studies

VENUE
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)
Benczur utca 34, H-1068

Map to the Venue can be found here:
http://www.fao.org/regional/seur/img/map-benczur.gif
General Information about the Venue can be found here:
http://www.fao.org/world/regional/REU/contact_en.htm

ACCOMMODATION AND SOCIAL EVENTS
Hotel Benczur will be used for the participants’ accommodation. It is located opposite the meeting venue.

More information on the facilities and location can be retrieved here:
http://www.hotelbenczur.hu/en

A social events’ schedule will be announced soon.

COST OF WINTER SCHOOL
The total fee for the Technical Course will amount to 650 Euros. This fee covers the accommodation for the total duration of the event (6 nights), the participation in the course, and the participation in all the social events that will take place.

AUDIENCE
The Technical Course is intended for technical personnel of existing/ operating AgLRs as well as for technical personnel of organizations/ initiatives producing learning resources of rural interest, interested in setting up an AgLR.

APPLICATION PROCESS
In order to be considered for entering the Technical Course, applicants must send a short Curriculum Vitae, together with a brief statement of relevant AgLR activities/projects that they are involved in. All applications should be directed to aglrcourse09@ grnet.gr indicating as a subject “Application for AgLR Technical Course”. Deadline for applications is 10/10/2009.

INFORMATION
For any questions please do not hesitate to contact us at:
aglrcourse09@ grnet.gr

Web site: http://aglr.aua.gr/node/4

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CfA: International Winter School on Federalism and Governance, Innsbruck, Austria

It is our pleasure to announce the first edition of the


INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON FEDERALISM AND GOVERNANCE - LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN FEDERAL AND REGIONAL SYSTEMS


Not only in Europe, but all over the world local government faces complex challenges that question its traditional status in multi-level governance systems and indeed request a redefinition of its role. Engage in an ongoing worldwide dialogue on the future of local government in federal and regional systems!

A transnational project of the Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism, EURAC, Bolzano/Bozen (Italy), the Faculty of Law and the School of Political Science and Sociology of the University of Innsbruck (Austria). It takes place under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

The Winter School analyzes the phenomena of federalism, regionalism and multi-level governance from a legal and a political science perspective. Every edition pays special attention to a particular topic, which is approached in detail by legal scholars, political scientists and practitioners.

In the first edition in February 2010 the focus will be on the role of local government in federal and regional systems. The programme includes: Multi-level- governance - local government in international, supranational and comparative perspective - local self-government - regional government - intergovernmental relations in compound systems - policies in multi-layered systems - fiscal federalism.

Participants will have the opportunity to present a working paper during the Winter School. The best papers will be considered for publication.

DATES AND VENUES
1-5 FEBRUARY 2010 (week 1)
Faculty of Law and School of Political Science and Sociology,
Leopold-Franzens- Universitä t Innsbruck, Austria

8-12 FEBRUARY 2010 (week 2)
Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism,
European Academy Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC), Italy

Successful participants of the 10-day-programme are awarded 10 ECTS credits (European Credit Transfer System). The working language is English.

The Winter School welcomes participants from all over the world:
* Young researchers or academics with focus on comparative federalism
* Post-graduate or undergraduate students with basic knowledge of federalism, multi-level governance and constitutional issues
* Civil servants from a local, regional or national government
* Employees of international organizations or NGOs dealing with regional and local development


Applications will be accepted until 26 October 2009
SELECTION OF LECTURERS
Prof. Dr. Hermann-Josef Blanke (University of Erfurt, Germany)
Prof. Michael Burgess (University of Kent, United Kingdom)
Univ.-Doz. Dr. Peter Bußjäger (Land Vorarlberg and Institute of Federalism, Austria)
Dr. Harald Eberhard (Constitutional Court of Austria, Vienna)
Prof. Dr. Gisela Färber (University of Public Administrative Sciences Speyer, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Anna Gamper (University of Innsbruck)
Prof. Chris Himsworth (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Dr. Andreas Kiefer (Land Salzburg, Austria)
Prof. Peter Leyland (London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom)
Prof. Dr. Francesco Palermo (European Academy Bolzano/Bozen and University of Verona, Italy)
Prof. Dr. Simona Piattoni (University of Trento, Italy)
Prof. Nico Steytler (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
Dr. Nenad Stojanovic (University of Zurich and European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy)
Béatrice Taulegne (Head, Forward Studies Unit, Committee of the Regions of the European Union, Brussels, Belgium)
President DDr. Herwig van Staa (Land Tirol, Austria)
Dr. Jens Woelk (University of Trento and European Academy Bolzano/Bozen, Italy)


For further information about the Winter School and the application procedure please visit www.eurac.edu/winterschool


Contact:
Paulina M. Borowska
email: winterschool@ eurac.edu
Tel. +39 0471 055 202
Fax +39 0471 055 299

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The 9th Bologna Winter School - Grand Challenges In Computation Biology

The 9th Bologna Winter School - Grand Challenges In Computational Biology will be held at University of Bologna from Feb 11-15, 2008.

Different subjects focusing as a test case on the human genome, including genome annotation, biodiversity, alternative splicing and its regulation, epigenetics, information transfer from 1D to 3D genetic code, cellular function and simulation, genomic medicine, SNPs and maladies will be reviewed to highlight present results and future perspectives to cope with the requirement of integrating computation with molecular description to understand basic principles of Biology.

Deadline for application: January 15, 2008

http://www.biosapie ns.info/page. php?page= meeting&meet= 24
http://www.biocomp. unibo.it/ ~school2008/

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IRSCA Gifted Education anunta inceperea inscrierilor pentru Scoala de Iarna a Educatiei de Excelenta, 2-10 februarie 2008, Brasov

Cursurile se adreseaza cadrelor didactice din invatamantul preuniversitar din toata tara. *

*Scoala de Iarna de la Brasov* are un dublu scop: sa faca accesibila participarea la formarea profesionala in domeniul educatiei de excelenta, o educatie de calitate inalta, a cat mai multor cadre didactice din tara avand in vedere prevederile Legii 17/2007 ; sa responsabilizeze cadrele didactice in privinta descoperirii si dezvoltarii potentialului, a abilitatilor si aptitudinilor copiilor si tinerilor talentati si capabili de performanta inalta.

*Detalii despre Scoala de Iarna a Educatiei de Excelenta - inscrieri (pana in 20 ianuarie), program, traineri http://www.supradot ati.ro/scoala- educatiei- de-excelenta. php*

· *Incurajam in mod deosebit cadrele didactice din judetul Brasov sa urmeze scoala de iarna pentru conditiile financiare deosebit de avantajoase lor si avand in vedere numarul de specialisti care vor sustine cursuri in acest cadru*

· *Toti cursantii din tara platitori de cazare sunt scutiti de taxa *

· *De asemenea sunt scutiti de taxa tinerii studenti, masteranzi, doctoranzi* care doresc sa participe la Scoala de Iarna, in limita locurilor disponibile, completand formularul de inscriere: http://www.supradot ati.ro/inscriere _scoala_de_ iarna.php
Va asteptam! Multumim.

*IRSCA Gifted Education*
*"We promote the human being who is a creator"*
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Winter/Summer School 2007/2008 (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Scholarship / Financial aid: financing up to EUR 14,000
Date: the winter 2007/2008
Deadline: 15 September 2007
Open to: postdoctoral scholars who do not hold a tenured position


Announcement follows:

Aims:
The Center for Junior Research Fellows (ZWN) at the University of Konstanz sponsors a winter school program at the University of Konstanz every year. The program is targeted at postdoctoral scholars who do not hold a tenured position. Running a winter/summer school offers young researchers the opportunity to popularize their own research fields and ideas, to intensive discuss their research topic with experts in their field in a calm, inspiring environ- ment and beyond time pressure. Moreover, they have the chance for socializing and building networks for future research cooperation. Particularly, postdoctoral students at the beginning of their career are encouraged to apply.

Service:
The ZWN winter/summer school program not only covers the financing but also provides practical assistance for running the winter/summer school. The coordinators and the administrative staff of the ZWN support the winter/summer school hosts in choosing a venue, in designing and printing posters and flyers and help in attending to winter school participants.

Application:
According to the multidisciplinary character of the ZWN, postdoctoral scholars of all research disciplines may apply. Alternating every other year, the program is open to members of the University of Konstanz only and to external applicants.

For the winter 2007/2008 the ZWN announces the financing of a winter/summer school up to EUR 14,000. Young scholars both with and without German residency are invited to apply by 15 September 2007.

Website: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/

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